Skuggstaden / The Shadow City

As part of the art biennal Bästa Biennalen, Vilma Luostarinen and Louise Waite made a workshop called DoftDérive at Kristianstad Konsthall, exploring the ideas of Situationist International in a contemporary, sensory setting. This was then developed into the installation Skuggstaden/The Shadow City, in the exhibition Oenighet ger styrka, in 2017-2018.

Photo: Evelyn Thomasson: Regionmuseet/Kristianstads konsthall

Let the Talking Do the Work

LET THE TALKING DO THE WORK contains four installations, three videos, two performances, one contract-as-artwork and one symposium. We have actively withheld the works in their material form, allowing them to exist in the richness of their potential.

For artists today, it is seemingly vital to talk about one’s work. So, what might happen if the object is removed entirely, and all that is left is the talking?

By inverting the usual degree show experience we leave you to imagine what might have been. Using a fixed framework, each artist is given an opportunity to verbalise their ideas, creating a cacophony of conversations between the artists. The arrangement of individual head-spaces, however, also allows for the viewer to engage on a one to one level with each idea.

Metamorphosis I: Primordial Paste was part of a series of poetic and material explorations where the boundaries of what is human and innate becomes blurred. In this first experiment, an unknown black substance was explored through the act of kneading.

The interactive installation was part of the one day event What is Potential? at Wellcome Collection (UK) in 2016.